The country's first 'workplace parking levy' will come into force in Nottingham in 2012 and is likely to be adopted by other councils, according to The Telegraph.

NHS doctors and dentists will be allowed to have legal representation at internal disciplinary hearings after a landmark decision in the Court of Appeal.

As negotiations on pay and job cuts continue between British Airways (BA) and unions, the airline announced a pre-tax loss of £148m in the three months to the end of June, reports the BBC website.

Today (Friday) is the deadline for a Scottish council pay vote, which could see about 6,000 staff being sacked and rehired on new contracts should the offer be rejected.

Nearly12,000 independent shops and 7,000 branches of major chains have closed so far this year in England and Wales, leaving thousands of people jobless, a survey has found.

Immigrant workers are being paid less than half the minimum wage to clean in some of London's 'top hotels', which cost guests up to £400 per night, according to a report in The Times.

Plans to slash thousands of pounds of compensation paid to civil servants being made redundant have been blasted by unions as an †outrageous†attempt to cut jobs on the cheap.

HR news and analysis, including: Latest developments in the agency workers debate The fight for legal representation at disciplinary meetings Employees’ preferences for small businesses. Presenter Tara Craig is joined by Louisa Peacock and John Charlton. Edited by Kellie Cantelo,

Ethnic minorities make up just 3.3% of the construction industry workforce, compared to the national average of 7.9%, according to a report published today by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).

Marks and Spencer (M&S) has joined the Face Equality at Work campaign, in an effort to prove its commitment to treating staff with disfigurements both fairly and equally.

El lado publicado sobre los eventos en Honduras es el de lasupuesta "mediación de paz" en Costa Rica, la cualteóricamente está buscando una resolución pacífica alviolento y criminal golpe militar que destituyó al Presidenteconstitucional Mel Zelaya el 28 de junio.

They stood together to make their announcements like a traditional soft-cop,hard-cop duo. U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned the Iraniangovernment that if they didn't abandon their nuclear plans, the U.S.would withdraw its offer for talks. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud

Manuel Zelaya Rosales, the legitimate president of Honduras, crossed theNicaraguan border to enter his homeland July 24 after declaring the secondround of mediation arbitrated by U.S.-handpicked Costa Rican President OscarArias to be a failure. Once inside Honduran territory, Zelaya tried

Racial profiling is another expression of institutionalized racism rooted in awhite supremacist ideology under capitalism. In the U.S., racial profiling hastragically become a way of life, like eating, sleeping and breathing. Beingtargeted based on the color of your skin or

The July 16 arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home inCambridge, Mass., is but the latest glaring incident in the long history ofracism permeating Boston, going back to the 1970s desegregation battles andbefore.

The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.—a prominent African-American HarvardUniversity professor—in his own home by Cambridge police on July 16 hasshone a brilliant national and international spotlight on racial profiling inthe U.S.

At least 10,000 peoplemarched in Port-au-Prince July 15 to demand the return of former President JeanBertrand Aristide on his birthday. Aristide has been in forced exile since thecoup, mostly living in South Africa.

The casualties among the U.S.-led occupation forces in Afghanistan are headedtoward a new high this year, reaching 67 killed in July alone. The step-up indeaths—mostly from the large U.S. and British contingents on an offensivein Helmand Province—signals the new U.S.

The economic crisis in California spells hardship at the state's publicuniversities as budgets are balanced through a combination of tuition hikes andpay cuts for faculty and other workers.

Newspaper headlines, radio talk show hosts and cable news commentators have allspent the better part of the last month warning the Obama administration of apossible repeat of the 1993 failed Clinton health care proposal. SenateMajority Leader Harry Reid bolstered this